[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 22

[Adam Holt]

Indeed, some of Haitian schools have Internet and some don't: Braddock's
Internet-in-a-Box team has made a world of difference.

So in the end, the many Haitian schools I speak with are generally all are
interesting in keeping their Digital Libraries open (i.e. accessible, and
turned on) for kids/mentors during the evenings, where possible anyway.  In
no small part b/c of the reasons Tony stated earlier - that electrical
power consumption of the XS(CE) is so much lower than that of all combined
client machines / XOs.

Of course, when lacking a librarian (e.g. Tony Anderson Airways has great
rates, but is still unavailable to millions ;) "offline cloud"
content+lesson innovations can be just as murky as the sexy online cloud is
expensive.  And an invasive species at every level (not just culturally,
commercially) remembering that XS 0.6 (or was it 0.7) so often wouldn't run
at all in Jamaica+Madagascar+Philippines without a mystical dependency on
live Internet, until Jerry identified that notorious bug I hope he's
documented ;)


On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>wrote:

> Hi, Adam
>
> The model I have been pursuing is that the library contents are checked
> out by the child - i.e. copied to the Journal on the XO. There is no need
> to be connected to the school server to read a book. The same approach
> applies to media (audio, image, video).
>
> Naturally, the child will have to erase some library items from the
> Journal from time to time, particularly with XO-1.
>
> The schools I am working with have no access to the internet so keeping
> the server on to share internet access is not needed.
>
> There are technical issues to provide this capability for Wikipedia
> articles and some work will probably be needed to enable download of Khan
> Academy videos (beyond the Arithmetic and Pre-algebra group which is
> supported by the Learn Activity). I suspect some work will be needed for
> the maps. Currently Nick Doiron's Map Activity expects to be online to
> Google Maps or Open Street Maps and to build map-packs on the XO. In
> addition, Braddock has had pre-render the tiles. I don't yet know what
> impact this has on the Map Activity.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 08/17/2013 02:34 PM, server-devel-request at lists.**laptop.org<server-devel-request at lists.laptop.org>wrote:
>
>> Kids need to read in the evenings (and unforeseen times) on their XOs,
>> from
>> http://internet-in-a-box.org  and most importantly much younger material,
>> rare colorful ebooks we've been granted in Creole.
>>
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